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One hardly knows what verdict to pass upon such 

 a career as Lord Kennedy's. If he was a mad and 

 reckless gambler, he was also a keen and true sports- 

 man. He was a spoiled child of fortune who had no 

 command over his temper, and when that fiery temper 

 was touched it stung him like a gadfly into the com- 

 mission of acts which were nothing short of insane. 

 Yet he was not vicious, and had many lovable qualities. 

 " He was," says one who knew him well, " one of the 

 most charming companions in the world when things 

 were going all right, and his house was one of the 

 pleasantest to visit I ever knew." 



It was " of a strange order " that his eldest son, who 

 became Marquis of Ailsa in 1846, on the death of his 

 grandfather, should have met with a tragic end, due also, 

 like his sire's, to his passion for sport. The Marquis 

 was killed in the hunting-field on March 2Oth, 1870. 



